The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST,"

! MAINE WHOEVER gave man ten d IN
pay for lights and fuel while the widoA was
counting the mans daughter She rem 10 |
marry him, and he is trying TO recover ten
dollars.
| JOHN GENTLE is the name of a Kansas IN
who has licked all his neighbors, been in v
half dozen times, run away from two wiz
and is now locked up for shooting at a Juoal
He should have been called Peaceful John.
OUTSIDE the walls of Jerusalem new town,
has sprung up. a building club having been
established few years ago, under the operation
of which 100 houses were erected in four years
by the jews while along the jana road many
country villas have been erected of late by
European residents summer abodes
WHILE some men who were taking the places
of striking hands in a Northampton, England,
shoe factory were going home from work they
were beset by a mob of strikers. and IN the
midst of the excitement George Arnold, one OF
the workers, staggered, threw up his hands ana
fell to the pavement dead from heart disease
THE destructive habits of rabbits are well
known, In Australia they abound. When
servant enters situation she requires prom
Use that at least one day in the week she snail
not be obliged to eat rabbits In three years
100000 of rabbits were destroyed, ana ooun-
ty of Sl20 900 has been paid out for their ue-
structlon.
A 225-ouNcE NUGGET has been unearthed by
al AtlSlIdlld. hC hN"o
of the find leaked out through the transmission
of it to the mint by Chinese agents. The cele-
brated Cair nugget of one cwt. was found at
Hargraves in the year 1852, and recently. rev
miles away, at the Maitland bar, 4oo-ounce
nugget was found.
DIR. PANCoAsT, of the treasures seeking COM
pany, has returned to Philadelphia and aban-
dcned the search for the S2O000000 of treasure,
which went down with the privateer bedrock,
off Cape Henlopen a century ago The WORK
will be resumed next spring, DR. PancoaSt ne
ing determined that the mound over which they
have been working all summer contains the
missing treasure.
THE rivalry between Montreal and Quebec
long since reached the stage of fervent COM
parsons about port facilities and transactions.
On the one side it is said that Montreal as an
ocean port is doomed, but the reply is that Mon
treal has increased its ocean tonnage lis per
cent. in nine years. Furthermore, in the pc
riod of 1876-lSS6 the foreign trade of Moptreal,
as the Gazette declares, has been increased by
Sl4, l39 $50, while that of Quebec has declined
So, 1851, 41S.
PHILADELPHIA has an institution called the
''Sanitariun," the purpose of which is to pro-
vide outings at a resort established at Red
Bank, n. j., for poor children. and Mr. John F.
Smith, a merchant of that city has made 1t the
prncely gift Of SIS 600 to provide for continu-
ance OF the noble charity During the past
summer Il 200 children were taken to Red Bank,
Two SledIntTS DelDO ellDltOeu LOT buc pull JOSS.
Mr.. Smiths donation will be devoted TO the
building of steamer the coming winter.
A COLLECTION OF SEALS of royal houses and of
the principal families of France and other Euro
pean countries was recently sold at the Hotel
Drouot Paris. This collection. unique in its
kind, which belonged to the late Mr. Dubrun-
faut, celebrated collector OF autograph con
sisted of 1900 seals in excellent preservation.
arranged in about 600 cases. 1t brought only
about 150f., or about tenth part of tue cost of
the cases, although more than twenty years OF
expert work and continual researches had been
spent upon 1t.
A BABY ZEBRA, that cost S1.2G0, comes from
South Africa, ard has been named Little Phil"
after Gen. Phil Sheridan, arrived at the Zoolog-
ica Garden Saturday. On the same day there
arrived q pair Of prong-horned antelopes from
Nevada. They are brown, except that on the
hips are two large, round spots c5vered with
Snowwhite hair. which is several inches long,
and when the animals are frightened rises like
the hair on a CircaSsian girl in dime museum.
Later in the day came fourteen pairs of prairie
dogs, six pairs of which are destined for Central
Park, New York, a ground hog from Maryland,
and a siX-foot Rocky Mountain rattleSnaiIe.
EIGHTY EIGHT MEN. who are called the rebels
belonging to a certain religious sect have been
beheaded at one time in Chang Chou, China
The offense of this sect seems 10 be tba they
appear in the streets as vendors OF cIiidrenS
toys the chief OF which are cash swords. dag
gers and dragons, each formed out of $50 of the
cash coins strung together in various ShaDcS
They are said to have annoyed the people
great deal by cheating the children, and to have
caused much disturbance by higgling about
prices. and Chinese paper naively adds: 'Snce
the aforementioned cases have been 50 severely
dealt with not one of them has been seen on the
street. The people highly appreciate the en-
fOTcement of stringent laws and prompt
action"
An IRON COLUMN, % feet long and weighing
over 5000 pounds, part of new lighthouse
being built, was recently landed at Bishop Rock.
England. and a storm coming up, was left
lashed by a halfinch chain at each end to
strong eyebolts. Three days afterward the
workmen returned and found that the column
had been tossed up by the waves 20 feet to the
top of the rock, where it swaying about
like piece of timber Two days afterward
when they were able to land, the workmen
found that blacksmiths anvil weighing $50
pounds, which they had left in a hole 3la feet
deep and only ~ feet in diameter, had also
been washed by the waves completely out of
the hole.
OTTER BELT, one of the greatest of Comanche
chiefs, died in Indian Territory few days ago.
Five minutes before his death they held him
erect and rugged him out in his best war LOS
tune. They painted him red, set his war b, n
net on his head tied up his hair In beaver ski S,
and laid him down just as he died. Then his
five wives took sharp butcher knives, slashed
their faces with long, deep cuts, cut themselves
IN other places. ana beat tnelr bleeding bodies
and pulled their hair. They also burned every
thing they had, tepees, furniture. and even
most OF the clothing they had on big crowd
of bucks looked on and killed ten horses, in
Guiding favorite team of Fress Arlington on
whose ranch Otter Belt lived.
NEW SOUTH WALES has sent to the Queen for
her approval an act facilitating divorce which
equals the famous Illinois and Connecticut laws.
1t provides that whenever husband end wife
remain away from one another for three wears
without personal or written communication.
either may get a divorce Cruelty continued
for two years is a legitimate ground against the
husband, but not against the wife. A continual
habit of drunkenness for two years is, however
q valid plea for either party to put in ayninst
the other. provided it prevents the husband
from providing for the wife or the wife from
performing her domestic duties man. appa-
rently, may keep as drunk as he pleases pro-
vded he gives his wife plenty of money
The first young girl to be cremated in America
was 9-yearold Aida Weissleder the daughter of
the superintendent of the Brush Electric Light
Company in Cincinnati Her body was burned |
last week at the crematory in that city. The |
corpse, wrapped in white alum linen with white |
and yellow roses on the breast was Slid into the |
retort by two attendants. who at once retired |
and in the stiffness that followed the mourners |
could hear the puff and sizZle of the gases of the
body as the heat devoured it. After an hour |
the blue flames stopped circing about the body. |
and iong white streak was seen where il had |
been. These ashes, when gathered up weighed |
less than pound. They were returned TO the |
parents and will be preserved in an urn. II was |
4 InfatFt rafa l., NJ h.